Knowne to descende of gentle race."
Nash, in his History of Worcestershire, makes mention of this singular monument, but is anything but correct in giving its inscriptions.
Cuthbert Bede, B. A.
T. W. D. Brooks will find this word used by some modern authors to denote a child. In Moral and Sacred Poetry, selected and arranged by the Rev. T. Willcocks and the Rev. T. Horton (Devonport, W. Byers, 1834), there is at p. 254. a piece by Baillie, addressed "To a Child," the first line of which runs thus:
"Whose imp art thou, with dimpled cheek?"
And in a poem by Rogers, on the following page, the children of a gipsy are called imps.
J. W. N. Keys.
Plymouth.